(UN Watch) Lord David Trimble - During the debate on a commission of inquiry report on Israeli settlements, Nobel Peace Laureate Lord David Trimble told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday: "The report is inconsistent with Security Council Resolution 242, endorsed by the Council decision establishing this commission. It could lead to the utterly grotesque consequence that the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem should be returned to the desolate condition that existed between 1948 and 1967." "The very idea of this inquiry is wrong. Negotiations can only be by the Israelis and the Palestinians. Others at best can play a helpful role. But outside bodies purporting to make authoritative pronouncements on major issues over the heads of the parties can only undermine and subvert the peace process." "The United Nations and its human rights bodies should all be working with others to advance the cause of peace, not to hinder it. I regret to say that the Council displays the same selectivity that led to the abolition of the earlier Commission. I urge you to heed the criticism by successive UN secretary-generals of this Council's habit of singling out only one specific country, to the exclusion of virtually everything else."
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